Lighthearted - what has got worse since you’ve lost weight?

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Obviously it’s mostly hugely beneficial! But inspired by my shower just now - and light hearted - anything worse or more difficult?

For me, I have cut myself the last few times I’ve shaved my knees! It’s so much harder! They are so knobbly now 😂

The baggy thighs!! I had plans to get them dealt with surgically, and a neck lift while I was at it. But I'm pregnant so it'll have to wait a couple of years.

Still on the shaving theme - armpits! There didn’t used to be an actual ‘pit’ there before, just a flat surface.

My shoes don't fit...I've actually gone down an entire shoe size ...I've bought a lot of insoles and am slowly replacing my collection

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My now bony bum gets sore if I sit on my office chair for too long.

It’s more uncomfortable to sleep on my side due to my bony hips.

Oh god yeah, I look like a melted candle - so baggy. I hear some people say it improves a bit over time. I think by the time I managed to save up I might be so old it’s not worth it, but it would be great to get sorted. I still wore a no sleeves top the other day and felt surprisingly confident though!

I'm spending more money on clothes I actually like! Mainly on Vinted.

Another shaving issue - wasn't a problem as I would be in t-shirts and trousers so didn't need to. Now it's all shorts and vest tops!

Also my bum is very boney - sitting at the bus stop hurts.

I realise this is a bit 'my diamond shoes are too tight', but when I lie on my side in bed my now-bony knees press together and it's uncomfortable. I used to have soft cushiony fat there =D

I’ve lost a shoe size too!! It took me buying a few pairs to realise. Mad - I never thought I had fat feet!

10 and a half stone down

I chafe more than I ever did before because I’m so much more active! I also suffer with the heat more, weirdly

People shave their knees?! 😀

My bank balance! Seriously though, I had to buy a new office chair too. Also my glasses are too big - keep meaning to get them adjusted. Then there's my wedding ring that slips off too.

Oh I’m the opposite there - I keep thinking how much I would have been suffering in the heat this summer when I was bigger. I’ve been almost coping! I think that might be as much because I’m eating less than because I weigh less though, iyswim - digesting food is really hot work for the body and I’m doing less of that.

Are yours handily bald? Nice! I love that kind of little positive that you don’t even realise you have - enjoy it! I don’t have full leg hair on the knees but enough they need denuding.

Bingo wings from loose skin, forever buying clothes too big by accident and baggy clothes looking like their just too big instead of intentional 🤣

I think it’s because I do a lot more. In the heat before I’d literally just go to work and go home. Maybe 20 minutes active a day. Now I’m all over the place like a blue arsed fly!

Agreed! I’ve become very princess and the pea arranging various pillows around the hips and knees @kate6754@ClawedButler

11 stone lost here
I feel the cold a lot more now since all the "padding" has gone.
Definitely spending more on clothes
Getting used to ordering smaller portions when we go out for food or have a takeaway

Well yes they are bald and quite round! I honestly never realised that hairy knees were a thing. I’m nearer 70 than 60 and for the most part my shaving days are over but I’ve never had to do my knees. (Of course you’ve made me have a good look at them now to check 😀).

After 11.5stone of loss I have found my boobs have disappeared. They now need to be rolled up into my very padded bras so they look half ok! If I don't have a bra on they now just hang like golf balls in socks and I look flat chested in a T-shirt!

Yes! Bras fit so much more comfortably around the band which is wonderful, but the cups are more difficult as the boobs are so ‘loose’ for lack of a better word - they’re just scooped in and will scoop out again! Definitely never plunge style, only full cup or balcony.

I’ve lost almost 100lb and am now a healthy weight. Not my good god, my poor boobs are likea pair socks with golf balls in the toe. If I am naked and bend over too quickly they literally touch my knees and then clap together like a seal on the stand up. I can actually roll them like fruit roll ups and stuff them in my bra. Sitting in the bath is not fun, my bum bones are bones I didn’t even remember I had and I don’t like the lack of padding even though to be fair my bum looks great. I own 100 pairs of shoes and now my feet have shrunk not a single pair fit me and so I have just bought 1 pair of sandals, a pair of trainers and a pair of crocs in my new size.

😂 I ‘clap’ unexpectedly in various places too!

Tbh, in the past few years I have lost 10 stone, been pregnant and given birth, and turned 40. So my body is simultaneously a total lost cause and also has done the most miraculous things. So I love it still!